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1. Video released by spacecraft maker Space, X commemorating its Dragon capsule, which on May 25, 2012, ended up being the first business spacecraft to dock with the International Area Station. Space, X (A Britannica Publishing Partner), (born June 28, 1971, Pretoria, South Africa), South African-born American entrepreneur who cofounded the electronic-payment company Pay, Pal and formed Area, X, maker of launch vehicles and spacecraft. He was likewise one of the first significant financiers in, in addition to president of, the electric car maker Tesla. Top Concerns, Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971. Elon Musk cofounded the electronic payment company Pay, Buddy and established the spacecraft business Space, X. Elon Musk founded Area, X, a business that makes rockets and spacecraft. He ended up being the primary executive officer and a significant funder of Tesla, that makes electrical automobiles. Musk was born to a South African daddy and a Canadian mother. He showed an early skill for computers and entrepreneurship. At age 12 he developed a computer game and offered it to a computer magazine. In 1988, after getting a Canadian passport, Musk left South Africa because he was unwilling to support apartheid through mandatory military service and because he looked for the higher financial chances readily available in the United States. Musk went to Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and in 1992 he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where he got bachelor's degrees in physics and economics in 1997. In 1995 he established Zip2, a company that offered maps and service directories to online papers. In 1999 Zip2 was bought by the computer system maker Compaq for $307 million, and Musk then founded an online monetary services business, X.com, which later became Pay, Friend, which focused on moving money online. The online auction e, Bay bought Pay, Buddy in 2002 for $1. 5 billion. Musk was long persuaded that for life to survive, humanity needs to become a multiplanet types. However, he was disappointed with the excellent expenditure of rocket launchers. In 2002 he established Space Exploration Technologies (Space, X) to make more economical rockets. A 3rd rocket, the Falcon Heavy (first launched in 2018), was developed to bring 117,000 pounds (53,000 kg) to orbit, nearly two times as much as its largest competitor, the Boeing Business's Delta IV Heavy, for one-third the expense. Space, X has announced the successor to the Falcon 9 and the Falcon Heavy: the Super Heavy, Starship system. The Super Heavy first stage would be capable of lifting 100,000 kg (220,000 pounds) to low Earth orbit. The payload would be the Starship, a spacecraft created for offering fast transport between cities in the world and developing bases on the Moon and Mars. Dragon can carry as lots of as seven astronauts, and it had a crewed flight carrying astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken to the ISS in 2020. Musk looked for to minimize the expense of spaceflight by developing a totally

2. reusable rocket that might take off and go back to the pad it released from. Starting in 2012, Space, X's Grasshopper rocket made numerous brief flights to test such innovation. In addition to being CEO of Area, X, Musk was likewise primary designer in constructing the Falcon rockets, Dragon, and Insect. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to unique material. Subscribe Now Musk had long had an interest in the possibilities of electrical cars, and in 2004 he turned into one of the major funders of Tesla Motors (later on relabelled Tesla), an electrical car company founded by entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.